Comments on: Thank You, Karen http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html shifting libraries at the speed of byte Mon, 07 May 2012 16:14:10 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Khadijateri http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html/comment-page-1#comment-18059 Khadijateri Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:39:43 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html#comment-18059 I started reading your blog because it was about libraries and librarians... both of which have had a huge impact on my life. And then I read this post and I just stopped and stared at the monitor. I couldn't believe my eyes! I spent the first 12 years of my life in Calumet City. Twice a week when I was growing up I rode the library bus to the Calumet City Library. My life was books and that library was my favorite place in the whole world! I was a voracious reader and the librarians let me borrow 32 books every week - way over the normal limit for the amount of books you could borrow. That was way back in the 1970's. I've never found a library since that has the same special magic... I still dream about that library..... :) I started reading your blog because it was about libraries and librarians… both of which have had a huge impact on my life. And then I read this post and I just stopped and stared at the monitor. I couldn’t believe my eyes!

I spent the first 12 years of my life in Calumet City. Twice a week when I was growing up I rode the library bus to the Calumet City Library. My life was books and that library was my favorite place in the whole world! I was a voracious reader and the librarians let me borrow 32 books every week — way over the normal limit for the amount of books you could borrow. That was way back in the 1970’s. I’ve never found a library since that has the same special magic… I still dream about that library.….

:)

]]> By: » mentoring the present to the future shelfless http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html/comment-page-1#comment-17810 » mentoring the present to the future shelfless Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:38:39 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html#comment-17810 [...] few weeks back The Shifted Librarian wrote a post about her first job out of library school and how lucky she was to have a mentor to really set her [...] […] few weeks back The Shifted Librarian wrote a post about her first job out of library school and how lucky she was to have a mentor to really set her […]

]]> By: Tom http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html/comment-page-1#comment-17728 Tom Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:52:01 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/29/thank-you-karen.html#comment-17728 I knew Karen Bala from library courses from NIU. We were in a number of classes together. I thought she was good at figuring things out, at spelling things out in a direct manner, while still maintaining a kindness with people. (You really needed that in doing some group projects.) Working in an academic library, I'd basically lost touch the past ten years, but I would hear about her from time to time. I know she will be missed. I knew Karen Bala from library courses from NIU. We were in a number of classes together. I thought she was good at figuring things out, at spelling things out in a direct manner, while still maintaining a kindness with people. (You really needed that in doing some group projects.) Working in an academic library, I’d basically lost touch the past ten years, but I would hear about her from time to time. I know she will be missed.

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